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To celebrate the upcoming 5th Anniversary of Inner Strength Communication Inc., I challenged you to #AskMeAnything. This week, I answer questions from Eleanor Tan (Singapore) and Sabita Singh (Toronto, Canada).

Last week I challenged you to #AskMeAnything. Eleanor Tan, Global Head of Corporate Communication at the China Navigation Company, based in Singapore, asked me a total of six questions (WOW). I thought I would focus this blog on two of her questions.

My first post of this series answers an amazing question from Rachel Miller of @AllThingsIC in the United Kingdom. For those passionate or even curious about Internal Communication, Rachel is definitely a global leader to follow.

As a consultant who specializes in Internal Communication, I have the chance to speak to a variety of executives looking for support. When asking about employee engagement, I push them to be very clear about what engagement means to them.

I recently had a great conversation with Dan St. Louis of SocialChorus, a growing global workforce communications platform. We talked about the challenges his team experienced working with organizations and communication professionals considering adopting new technologies and launching internal apps.

This is the time that we all reflect on the past year, and plan for the next one. I consider myself blessed to do what I love every day and I want to thank our clients, my extended team and my communication colleagues for their contribution to our success.

I've always been a big believer in life-long learning and investing in myself. From making the decision to pay for my own IABC membership for the first few years of my career, to soaking up every book, article and opportunity that presented itself, I believe professional development (PD) has been a key contributor to my success.

For the majority of my corporate and consulting career, I have worked for corporations and have had the opportunity to support unionized environments from the employer side successfully. In 2017, I had the unique and wonderful opportunity to work inside a union and it helped reinforce my dedication to employees who bring our organizations to life.

I remember my husband and I having a conversation on homeless youth after a documentary had aired talking about young people who were out on their own because they simply didn't want to follow the rules at home. It justified my reason to not give to those in the streets.

I have to admit that I am still recovering from last week's first Strategic Internal Communication Conference in Toronto. This is the first of a series of blogs that will share insights from the conference and feedback from attendees.

This morning, my husband sent me a headline of Sobeys (a Canadian grocery retailer) CEO, Michael Medline, stating that they would not "screw up" their recently-announced acquisition of Farm Boy (a smaller grocery retailer). It's not often that a CEO proactively makes a bold statement like that and I have to admit that I am just a little impressed.